Published 6:50 am, Tuesday, April 22, 2014

It was a perfect day for the Lady Raiders to win the softball district championship, defeating Caprock 10-4.

It was a big day in the pitching circle for freshman Jessica Sisemore, who got the win while pitching five innings. During that time she gave up one run on four hits with one error, but the big news was that she struck out 11 batters.

In the meantime, she had plenty of support at the plate from her teammates, as Kasmir Perez went four-for-four with one run scored and five RBI’s, four coming on a grand slam homerun in the second inning that blew the game open for the Lady Raiders.

Box score

Cap 000 101 2 4 7 3

RHS 060 400 x 10 12 2

The losing pitcher for Caprock was Adrianna Chischilly, who pitched all six innings for the Lady Horns. She gave up four walks with no strikeouts, along with 10 runs on 12 hits with three errors.

Christiana Lucero was three-for-three at the plate, with a walk, an RBI, three hits and two runs scored. Senior Kaci Taylor was two-for-three with a walk and two runs scored.

It was the big second inning that gave the Lady Raiders plenty of runs to hold on to the victory.

The victory wrapped up the regular season of district play with the Lady Raiders (23-6, 9-1) claiming the district championship. They will begin the playoffs with bi-district action against Lubbock Monterey. Game one of the best-of-three series will begin at 5 p.m. tomorrow at Lady Raiders’ Field. Game two will begin at noon on Saturday at Monterey. If game three is needed, it will begin 30 minutes after the conclusion of game two.

Canyon (25-6-1, 8-2) finished district play as the No. 2 seed, with Dumas (18-11, 6-4) in No. 3 and Caprock (15-15-1, 4-6) in at No. 4.